The Longest Day Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

Rhyme Scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF EGEG HIHI JKJK HEHE LBLB JEJE JJJJ JMJN AGAG AJAJ OAOA EPEP EEEE AJAJ QJQJ AAAA

Let us quit the leafy arborA
And the torrent murmuring byB
For the sun is in his harborA
Weary of the open skyB
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Evening now unbinds the fettersC
Fashioned by the glowing lightD
All that breathe are thankful debtorsC
To the harbinger of nightD
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Yet by some grave thoughts attendedE
Eve renews her calm careerF
For the day that now is endedE
Is the longest of the yearF
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Dora sport as now thou sportestE
On this platform light and freeG
Take thy bliss while longest shortestE
Are indifferent to theeG
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Who would check the happy feelingH
That inspires the linnet's songI
Who would stop the swallow wheelingH
On her pinions swift and strongI
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Yet at this impressive seasonJ
Words which tenderness can speakK
From the truths of homely reasonJ
Might exalt the loveliest cheekK
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And while shades to shades succeedingH
Steal the landscape from the sightE
I would urge this moral pleadingH
Last forerunner of Good nightE
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Summer ebbs each day that followsL
Is a reflux from on highB
Tending to the darksome hollowsL
Where the frosts of winter lieB
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He who governs the creationJ
In his providence assignedE
Such a gradual declinationJ
To the life of human kindE
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Yet we mark it not fruits reddenJ
Fresh flowers blow as flowers have blownJ
And the heart is loth to deadenJ
Hopes that she so long hath knownJ
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Be thou wiser youthful MaidenJ
And when thy decline shall comeM
Let not dowers or boughs fruit ladenJ
Hide the knowledge of thy doomN
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Now even now ere wrapped in slumberA
Fix thine eyes upon the seaG
That absorbs time space and numberA
Look thou to EternityG
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Follow thou the flowing riverA
On whose breast are thither borneJ
All deceived and each deceiverA
Through the gates of night and mornJ
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Through the year's successive portalsO
Through the bounds which many a starA
Marks not mindless of frail mortalsO
When his light returns from farA
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Thus when thou with Time hast travelledE
Toward the mighty gulf of thingsP
And the mazy stream unravelledE
With thy best imaginingsP
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Think if thou on beauty leanestE
Think how pitiful that stayE
Did not virtue give the meanestE
Charms superior to decayE
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Duty like a strict preceptorA
Sometimes frowns or seems to frownJ
Choose her thistle for thy sceptreA
While youth's roses are thy crownJ
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Grasp it if thou shrink and trembleQ
Fairest damsel of the greenJ
Thou wilt lack the only symbolQ
That proclaims a genuine queenJ
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And ensures those palms of honorA
Which selected spirits wearA
Bending low before the DonorA
Lord of heaven's unchanging yearA

William Wordsworth



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